Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Lonnie Liston Smith to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Niagra,
Sex Pistols,
Silicon Teens,
Nils Olav,
Nas,
Maleditus Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sugar Minott,
Gregory Isaacs,
Spoonie Gee,
Blossom Toes,
Aloha Tigers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Newcleus,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Animal Collective,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eric Dolphy,
Hoover,
The Associates,
The Stooges,
E-Dancer,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delta 5,
Khruangbin,
Swans,
The Cramps,
The Victims,
Drive Like Jehu,
The American Breed,
The Monochrome Set,
Livin' Joy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Move,
Dennis Brown,
Japan,
Warren Ellis,
Ultra Naté,
Isaac Hayes,
Slick Rick,
Motorama,
Piero Umiliani,
Al Stewart,
Susan Cadogan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lungfish,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Enemy,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
Franke,
Q65,
X-101,
Slave,
Brick,
The Walker Brothers,
Nico,
ABBA,
Boogie Down Productions,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.